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disgorge

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Disgorge  \Dis*gorge"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Disgorged};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Disgorging}.]  [F.  d['e]gorger,  earlier  desgorger 
  pref.  d['e]-,  des-  (L.  dis-)  +  gorge.  See  {Gorge}.] 
  1.  To  eject  or  discharge  by  the  throat  and  mouth;  to  vomit; 
  to  pour  forth  or  throw  out  with  violence,  as  if  from  the 
  mouth;  to  discharge  violently  or  in  great  quantities  from 
  a  confined  place 
 
  This  mountain  when  it  rageth  .  .  .  casteth  forth 
  huge  stones,  disgorgeth  brimstone.  --Hakluyt. 
 
  They  loudly  laughed  To  see  his  heaving  breast 
  disgorge  the  briny  draught.  --Dryden. 
 
  2.  To  give  up  unwillingly  as  what  one  has  wrongfully  seized 
  and  appropriated;  to  make  restitution  of  to  surrender; 
  as  he  was  compelled  to  disgorge  his  ill-gotten  gains. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Disgorge  \Dis*gorge"\,  v.  i. 
  To  vomit  forth  what  anything  contains;  to  discharge;  to  make 
  restitution. 
 
  See  where  it  flows,  disgorging  at  seven  mouths  Into  the 
  sea.  --Milton. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  disgorge 
  v  1:  cause  to  flow  out  or  over  "spill  the  beans  all  over  the 
  table"  [syn:  {spill},  {shed}] 
  2:  eject  the  contents  of  the  stomach  through  the  mouth;  "After 
  drinking  too  much  the  students  vomited"  [syn:  {vomit},  {vomit 
  up},  {cast},  {sick},  {cat},  {regurgitate},  {be  sick},  {regorge}, 
  {retch},  {puke},  {barf},  {spew},  {spue},  {chuck},  {upchuck}, 
  {honk},  {throw  up}]  [ant:  {keep  down}]




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